DownloadAppendix H:
The objects, functions and powers of ASDA
as specified in the ASDA Act
Objects
The objects of the establishment of the Agency were to:
- deter the use of scheduled drugs or doping methods in sport
- facilitate the safety of participants in sporting competitions
- encourage the development of programs to educate the sporting community about matters relating to drugs in sport
- advocate the international adoption of consistent and effective anti-doping programs
- coordinate the development of a consistent and effective national response to matters relating to drugs in sport.
Functions
The functions of the Agency included provisions to:
- employ functions that are conferred on the Agency by a drug testing scheme
- provide drug testing services
- advocate the international development and implementation of consistent and effective anti-doping programs
- encourage Australian national sporting organisations, State and Territory sporting organisations and professional sporting organisations to develop and implement comprehensive and consistent antidoping initiatives and use the services of the Agency and accredited laboratories
- provide safety checking services
- develop and implement initiatives that increase the skills and knowledge of the people involved in sporting activities about matters relating to the use of drugs in sport
- collect, analyse, interpret and disseminate information about matters relating to the use of drugs in sport and the safety of participants in sporting competitions
- carry out research relating to the use of drugs in sport and the safety of participants in sporting competitions
- advocate and support research in and outside Australia relating to the use of drugs in sport and the safety of participants in sporting competitions
- implement anti-doping arrangements
- encourage the establishment of means for the carrying out by government departments and authorities of the States and Territories of initiatives relating to the use of drugs in sport f cooperate with those departments and authorities and with non-government sporting organisations to implement those initiatives
- any other functions conferred on the Agency under the ASDA Act
- advise the Minister on matters falling within any of the above mentioned functions and related matters
- do anything incidental to, or conducive to, the performance of any of the above functions.
Powers
The Agency had the power to do all things necessary or convenient for, or in connection with, the performance of its functions and, in particular, may:
- enter into contracts
- acquire, hold and dispose of real and personal property
- obtain goods and services on credit from any person by the use of a credit card
- form, or participate in the formation of, companies
- occupy, use and control any land or building owned or held under lease by the Commonwealth and made available for the purposes of the Agency
- appoint agents and attorneys, and act as an agent for other persons
- engage persons to perform services for the Agency
- accept gifts, grants, bequests and devices made to the Agency (whether on trust or otherwise) and act as trustee of money or other property vested in the Agency on trust
- develop, maintain, distribute and publish information on procedures for, and developments concerning, the collection and testing of samples
- do anything incidental to any of its powers.
The Agency may charge fees for providing services, information or advice.
The amount of a fee must not be such as to amount to taxation.
ASDA can exercise these powers within or outside Australia.